New interface designs for small molecule crystallography GUI Design Horst Puschmann Some general considerations in User Interface Design UI Design Horst Puschmann Introduction Age Concern Age Concern ! Modern Crystallographic Program » Based on the cctbx smtbx » Toolbox – not a program! ! Modern User Interface » An accessible GUI Olex2 The cctbx mmtbx smtbx pdtbx? scitbx iotbx cctbx cctbx Olex2 Context Age Concern & Olex2 (I should have done) Some Reading: Donald A Norman: The Design of Everyday Things (Basic Books, 1988/2002) Joel Spolsky: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001) User Interfaces History of Interfaces ! First programs weren’t interactive at all. ! Command line: Now what do I do? Whatever you want! Need to memorize all the frequently used commands, or continuously look things up. ! Then ‘questions and answer’ model appeared. Combination of a manual with the program itself. ! More and more choices made this very messy. Menus appeared.